EP0713378A1 - Active foam for noise and vibration control - Google Patents
Active foam for noise and vibration controlInfo
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- This invention is directed to the creation of an active noise and vibration canceling foam which contains layers of embedded curved PVDF (polyvinyleidene fluoride) piezoelectric materials.
- PVDF polyvinyleidene fluoride
- the present invention consists of foam with embedded layers of PVDF arranged in various patterns to activate and change the properties of the foam.
- the PVDF is electronically activated.
- Tibbells was concerned with creating a transducer and placed a rippled cylindrical segment sheet of PVDF on a rigid frame. The purpose is to achieve a useful elastic stability to the film and cancel harmonic distortion.
- the foam that forms the subject matter of this invention utilizes curved layers of embedded PVDF piezoelectric materials.
- the PVDF is electrically activated with time varying signals and used to adapt the properties of the foam in terms of vibration isolation and sound radiation and absorption).
- the curved PVDF couples better to out-of plane motion than straight or planar PVDF.
- the foam itself is urethane but can be of another similar material.
- PVDF When an oscillating voltage is applied to PVDF it causes the material to dominantly strain in plane. Curving the PVDF causes the in-plane motion to couple to out-of-plane motion.
- the acoustic and vibrational characteristics of the foam can be modified. In particular, the low frequency damping characteristics of the foam can be improved leading to a much more compact implementation of the foam
- the PVDF By varying the configuration of the PVDF in the foam the PVDF can also be made to act like a distributed loudspeaker where the foam acts as a support matrix.
- active foam and of the proposed distributed PVDF actuators are (i) active structural radiation and control, (ii) distributed speakers for special sound effects, (iii) active sound reflection control and, (iv) active damping and vibration isolation.
- a large piece of active foam may be bonded to the surface of a vibrating structure, for example a vibrating plate. The active foam can then be activated to generate a sound which has a 180° phase angle between the sound radiated from the plate in the error plane. The near field acoustic interaction (or cancellation) will result in a reduction in the far-field acoustic pressure.
- the application of the distributed PVDF actuators or active foam as a special distributed speaker would be manifested by applying very large curved PVDF sheets mounted on the surface of the foam to a wall or laminating it in wall paper to create very large thin speakers.
- the application of distributed PVDF actuators in active sound reflection control can be illustrated by considering an incident sound wave to a flat surface covered with the active foam. First, the foam has a much lower reflection coefficient which tends to reduce the sound reflection; and second, the activation of the active foam will generate a sound to cancel the reflected sound wave resulting in little or no sound reflection.
- the active foam can also be used for vibration damping or isolation.
- vibration damping the active foam is attached to the structural surface and activated to damp out the motion of the structure.
- active isolation the vibrating machine is mounted on active foam blocks.
- the electrical inputs to the PVDF are adjusted by a controller to minimize the vibration transmission from the machine to the receiving base.
- the sound radiation of PVDF acoustic actuators can be as high as 120 dB in certain frequency ranges for a given voltage depending on the configuration of the acoustic actuators, namely the size of the actuator, curvature, and actuator thickness. I.e., PVDF actuators can radiate significant sound.
- the process of curving the PVDF is as follows. Glue or a similar adhesive is first placed on the mounting structure. The ends of the PVDF are attached to the structure. The distance between the ends is dependent on how many structural curves are curved between, as well as the curvature of these structure waves.
- One of the actuators can have one curve, and the other may have two.
- One curve can be formed by simply bonding both ends to the supporting structure. Two curves may be formed by pressing the center of a large curve down on the structure and securing it. More curves can be created in the same way by splitting one bigger curve into two smaller ones.
- Another object of this invention is to provide an active acoustic foam which causes a reduction in far-field acoustic pressure.
- a further object of this invention is to use PVDF embedded foam as a vibration isolation means.
- a still further object of this invention is to use PVDF embedded foam as a structurally radiated speaker.
- Yet another object of this invention is to employ foam embedded with PVDF for vibration damping. Another object is to provide an acoustic foam with curved embedded PVDF actuators.
- An additional object of this invention is the provision of distributed PVDF actuators in active sound reflection control.
- FIG 1 is a cut-away perspective of active structural acoustic control (AS AC) with active foam
- Figure 2 is a graph showing optimization of curved PVDF actuator configuration for AS AC
- Figure 3 is a graph plot of acoustic intensity versus frequency showing a comparison of coupled and de-coupled acoustic analysis
- Figure 4 is a graph of acoustic intensity versus frequency for underwater AS AC with curved PVDF actuators
- Figure 5 is a plot of acoustic pressure versus radial distance from the PVDF cylinder
- Figure 6 is a plot of acoustic pressure versus voltage
- Figure 7 is a plot of acoustic intensity versus frequency for various thicknesses of PVDF actuators
- Figure 8 is a plot of sound level from a PVDF ring versus frequency
- Figure 9 is a plot of sound level versus frequency for curved PVDF acoustic actuators
- Figure 10 is a perspective view of a representative active foam
- Figure 11 is a sectional view of a foam with curved embedded piezoelectric material
- Figure 12 is a side view of an application of the foam comprising this invention
- Figure 13 is a block diagram of the standing wave tube system used to determine the frequency response of active foam constituted according to this invention, and to study its importance in active reflection control
- Figure 14 is a chart showing the frequency response function of active foam
- Figure 15 is a diagrammatic view of the foam and PVDF of this invention used as a speaker surface
- Figure 16 shows the instant invention being used as a frequency vibration damper.
- ASA Active sound attenuation
- ASA Conventional ASA technique utilizes speakers as control sound sources, such as the type of system proposed by Lueg in 1934.
- the geometry and size of these control speakers affect the control authority of ASA significantly.
- the sound from a vibrating structure may be reduced, in some degree, everywhere in the far-field as long as the control source is smaller than the wavelength of the sound and is located close to the structure at a distance of about ⁇ /3 to ⁇ /4 (Warnaka, 1982).
- ASA is also sensitive to the frequency of sound, i.e., it is difficult to conduct broad-band noise control unless the control speaker system is made adaptive.
- the proposed active foam 10 (used as the control sound source) is shown generally in Figure 1.
- Induced strain actuators, such as PZT and PVDF, 11 generate in- plane motion when subjected to a voltage across their cross-sections.
- the in-plane motion can be transferred into out-of-plane motion when the actuators are curved as at 12.
- the out-of-plane motion activates the foam and results in more efficient radiation of sound.
- the instant actuator configuration utilizes this characteristic.
- a large piece of PVDF may be curved into a wave shape, such as that shown in Figure 1, embedded in urethane foam 13 which, in turn, is then bonded to the surface of a vibrating structure, for example, a vibrating plate such as 14.
- the distributed PVDF actuator 11 can then be activated to generate a sound which has a 180° phase angle between the sound radiated from the plate in the near field. The near field acoustic interaction (or cancellation) will result in a reduction in the far-field acoustic pressure.
- the application of the distributed PVDF actuators as a special distributed speaker is manifested by applying very large curved PVDF sheets to a wall or laminating it in wallpaper to create very large thin speakers.
- the application of distributed PVDF actuators in active sound reflection control can be illustrated by considering an incident sound wave to a flat surface covered with curved PVDF films.
- the PVDF has a much lower structural impedance which tends to reduce the sound reflection; and second, the activation of the curved PVDF will generate a sound to cancel the reflected sound wave resulting in little or no sound reflection, also called an electronic sound absorber by Warnaka (1982).
- the induced strain actuators which can be utilized in the ASAC applications include PZT, PVDF, and electrostrictive actuators. All these actuator materials can be used to generate in-plane motions as a function of applied voltage. The following equation holds for all the actuators mentioned above and can be used to optimize the curved PVDF shapes for embedding in the foam.
- PVDF polystyrene foam
- ASA active structural vibration control
- a piece of PVDF of length L is curved as shown in Figure 2, the total deformation in the length direction is ⁇ L.
- the deformed shapes of the PVDF corresponding to + ⁇ 7 " . are curve 2 and 3 respectively as shown in Figure 2.
- the most acoustically efficient curve should be the one corresponding to the largest area closed by curve 2 and 3.
- the area formed by curve 2 and 3 is subjected to
- the pressure and induced-strain may also be written as
- Emn j- 1 f* £sin — -si d ⁇ dx (13)
- Equation (14) The eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the curved actuators can be resolved from Equation (14) by assuming C and ⁇ F ⁇ zero. Three eigenvalues and eigenvectors corresponding to one (m,n) set can be found because of the coupling between the radial, axial, and circumferential modes (Junger and Feit, 1986).
- Equation (7) is the acoustic pressure acting on the actuators which can be solved from the acoustic wave equation.
- Equation (7) an infinite PVDF cylinder is assumed. The traveling waves in the axial direction are not considered.
- Equation (7) the governing equation can be simplified from Equation (7) as
- J n ( ⁇ ) is the Bessel function of the first kind and H n ( ⁇ )the Hankel function of the first kind.
- the unknown integration coefficient B n and C n can be determined from the boundary condition which is
- the radial displacement and induced strain can be assumed to have the following form if the axial traveling wave is not considered.
- Equation (25) The integration coefficients in Equation (25) can then be determined as
- the wave function, ⁇ can then be determined as
- the acoustic pressure can be derived from the wave function as
- Equation (33) The acoustic pressures acting on the PVDF cylinder can be solved from Equation (33) and then substituted into Equation (18), yielding:
- Equation (34) The displacement coefficients, t ⁇ n given by Equation (34) can be substituted back to Equation (33) to calculate the acoustic pressure.
- the equations derived above can be used to calculate sound radiations of cylinders with integrated induced strain actuators, such as a cylinder with discretized PZT patches mounted on its surface. If the entire structure is made of an induced strain material, such as the PVDF cylinder discussed here, only the first term in Equation (28) is not zero. This indicates only the first mode (uniform radial expansion and contraction mode) can be excited, i.e., only the first term of all the summation is not zero.
- the amplitude of radial displacement of a PVDF cylinder thus, can be expressed as
- Equation (35) The resonant frequency of the thin PVDF cylinder can be determined from Equation (35) as
- Equation (33) the particle velocity (radial direction) outside the cylinder can be solved from
- the time average acoustic intensity is defined as
- the variables in the acoustic intensity are the voltage applied to the PVDF, the radius and thickness of the actuator, and the activation frequency.
- Table 1 Listed in Table 1 are the material properties of the PVDF cylinders modeled in this paper. This PVDF is commercially available. A constant voltage of 110 volts is assumed to be applied to the actuator. The acoustic pressure or intensity is measured at one meter from the cylinder. The thickness of the PVDF cylinder is assumed to be 110 ⁇ m unless otherwise specified. The loss factor is given as 0.018. Damping is added in the model by assuming a complex modulus which is E(l + / tan d) while the damping coefficient, C, in Equation (18) is assumed to be zero. Table 1 : Material Properties for the PVDF Actuators
- Shown in Figure 3 is the acoustic intensity as a function of frequency.
- the solid lines are from coupled analysis where the influence of fluid loading is considered.
- the dashed lines are from de-coupled analysis, where fluid interaction is not considered. Only one peak can be found if the analysis is based on no fluid coupling because the PVDF cylinder has only one resonant frequency as given by Equation (36).
- the second and third peak (at 11 kHz and 19 kHz) calculated based on coupled analysis are obviously due to the fluid coupling.
- the de-coupled analysis agrees with the coupled analysis very well except around resonant frequencies.
- the second PVDF cylinder simulated has a radius of 0.01 m and its resonant frequency is around 17.5 FIz.
- the results from de-coupled analysis fit well below the resonant frequency.
- One important conclusion can be drawn from the above analysis: if the radius of curvature of the curved PVDF actuator is less than 0.0088 m (or 0.35 inch), it is not necessary to consider the fluid interaction with the actuator in the audio frequency range (20 to 20,000 Hz).
- Shown in Figure 5 is the acoustic pressure amplitude as a function of radial distance from the cylinder.
- the outside acoustic pressure acting on the PVDF cylinder is about 13 Pa.
- Shown in Figure 6 is the acoustic intensity measured at one meter from a PVDF actuator as a function of applied voltage. Extremely high voltage can cause arcing and resistance heating even though the electric impedance of PVDF appears to be very high.
- FIG. 7 Shown in Figure 7 is the coupled analysis of two PVDF cylinders of the same radius (0.02m) but different thickness. Reducing the thickness of PVDF cylinders does not alter their resonant frequencies (see Equation (36)). This can be seen from Figure 7 where the frequencies of the first peak of the two curves remain almost the same (their difference is caused by damping and fluid coupling). The frequencies of the second peak, however, differ by about 1,000 Hz as a result of increasing the fluid coupling if the structural impedance of the PVDF cylinder decreases. Except around the resonant frequency, the thickness of PVDF cylinders affects their acoustic behavior almost the same way as changing the voltage (see Equation (1)).
- the open circuit voltage applied across the cross-section of the PVDF ring was 100 volts.
- the sound level as a function of frequency is plotted in Figure 8.
- the first sound level peak is observed at 4 kHz and the sound level is 78 dB. This corresponds to the resonant frequency of the ring.
- the second peak occurs at 12 kHz and the sound level reaches as high as 100 dB.
- the PVDF ring does not respond below 2,000 Hz which will limit the application of such devices.
- the response of a curved PVDF actuator largely relies on its configuration. For example, if the radius of the ring increases so that its first resonant frequency is at 2,000 Hz, the frequency response of the PVDF ring below 2,000 Hz may be improved.
- the thickness of the plain PVDF is about 50 micrometers, while the thickness of the sensor-type PVDF is only about 28 micrometers.
- the thickness of the plastic layer for the sensor-type PVDF is about 86 micrometers (the total thickness of the sensor-type PVDF is about 200 micrometers.).
- the maximum sound radiated from the plain PVDF actuator (at its resonant frequency and 100 volts) is about 75 dB.
- the sound radiated from the sensor-type PVDF actuators can be as high as 105 dB at the same voltage, as shown in Figure 9.
- Figure 10 shows a configuration of active foam 50 having multiple layers of flexible piezoelectric material 51, 52 embedded therein. Such foam can be used as both passive and active insulation for noise attenuation purposes.
- Figure 11 shows a sectional view of multiple layers of piezoelectric material 61, 62 being used in sound radiation/absorption control on a panel 60. Reflected or radiated waves 63 or reflected wave 64 can be controlled by adjusting the electrical inputs to the piezoelectric material.
- the piezoelectric material can be used as both actuators or sensors in conjunction with a suitable control algorithm such as that described in U.S. Patent No. 5,091,953 to Tretter.
- Figure 12 shows a vibratory machine 70 mounted atop active foam 71 which has piezoelectric layers 72, 73 therein.
- the assembly is atop flexible base 74.
- Transmitted vibrations can be reduced by active electrical inputs into the piezoelectric material.
- the piezoelectric material can again be used either as an actuator or sensor in conjunction with a suitable control algorithm.
- FIG. 13 is a block diagram showing a standing wave tube schematic of system 100.
- PVDF film 101 is embedded in a urethane foam structure 102 in various shapes and sizes.
- the PVDF shapes include sine waves, square waves and multi-layered configurations.
- a standing wave tube 104 is used to evaluate the sound absorption of the active composite foam.
- the incident and reflected waves are measured using two microphones 105 and an analog wave deconvolution circuit 106.
- a filtered-x LMS adaptive algorithm accomplishes through computer 107 harmonic control of the reflected wave component.
- a B&K analyzer checks the signals from circuit 106 which have been amplified through circuit 109. Control of the PVDF is accomplished by a signal from computer 107 passing through a low pass filter 110 and being amplified at 111 before activating the PVDF 101.
- Figure 14 shows the frequency response function of active foam comprising controlled and uncontrolled reflected wave intensity. Note the increase in control in the higher frequencies. The reduction of reflected noise is important to many areas of acoustics. It is desired to explore the use of new materials such as PVDF films in active control of reflected sound. Composites constructed of PVDF film embedded in urethane foam provide effective attenuators even at low frequencies where passive techniques are limited. The results show much higher absorption of sound than just convention foam. This sound reduction can be achieved with a very thin film of material.
- Figure 15 shows the instant invention being used as a speaker with the PVDF film 130 supported by foam 131 mounted atop a supporting structure 132.
- FIG 16 illustrates the instant invention being used to control vibrational deflection of a beam 141 mounted to wall 142. Normally, vibration in the member causes deflection as at 143 in beam 141. By putting a length of active foam 144 along the length of the beam the deflection at 143 can be minimized through active damping.
- Foam 144 has a layer of PVDF 145 embedded therein. The above examples show the foam can be used to actively create and control transverse motion. These attributes can be taken advantage of to create an active isolation strategy as in Figure 12. The foam can also be similarly used to create active damping by appropriately adjusting the control inputs.
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